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Thinking Beyond the Brain: Educating and Building from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition

Chapter of: Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas(pp. 85–104)

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TitleThinking Beyond the Brain
SubtitleEducating and Building from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition
ContributorMichael Wheeler(author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightMichael Wheeler
Publishermeson press
Published on2015-07-14
Long abstractAccording to the hypothesis of extended cognition (ExC), our thinking is not just happening in the brain but spreads out to the beyond-the-skin environment. Following an introduction to the basic idea of extended cognition, this essay explores that idea in relation to two issues: first, it looks at the hybrid education in an increasingly networked world; second, at the situating of organic cognition within so-called “intelligent buildings.” It is argued that we should understand these contemporary developments as the latest realizations of an age-old human ontology of dynamically assembled, organic-technological cognitive systems, since it is of our very nature to enhance our raw organic intelligence by forming shifting human-arte-fact coalitions that operate over various time-scales.
Page rangepp. 85–104
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Michael Wheeler

(author)
Professor of Philosophy at University of Stirling
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3638-1215

Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His primary research interests are in philosophy of science (especially cognitive science, psychology, biology and artificial intelligence) and philosophy of mind. His book, Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step, was published by MIT Press in 2005.